https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/how-a-rabbit-god-became-an-icon-for-taiwans-gay-community'During a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively separating flower petals to make an offering to Tu’er Shen the rabbit god, a spiritual guardian of LGBTQI people.
The small Taoist temple where 24-year-old A-wei sits is a humble room with views across New Taipei city, made cosy by the smell of incense and the mews of two noisy cats...
“In other temples a common thing is the master will tell you what to do, but this place is different. They listen to me like a friend, without religious pressure.” '
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Quite lovely. There's a great deal of work I think, that needs to be done on queer spirituality, particularly in non-western post-Christian nations.
But broader than that; an overlapping article about 'danmei';
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/chinas-rotten-girls-are-escaping-into-erotic-fiction-about-gay-menRefuge and liberation for otherwise straight women in China through queer fiction (and I know a lot of the genre will often play with similar allegories found in the story of Tu'er Shen)
